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Panel Discussion Conflicts, Legitimacy, and Government Reform: The Role of Civic Education Richard A. Nuccio, Ph.D. Director Civitas International Programs The Revolution was not fought to deliver paradise, but to liberate us from hell. -Attributed to Joaquin Villalobos, f o r m e r s e n i o r m i l i t a r y c o m m a n d e r Farabundo Marti Liberation Front (FMLN), El Salvador Introduction The objectives posed for Thai society by this KPI conference are important ones, which have motivated, and eluded, human beings since we began to organize ourselves into complex political arrangements. Can a society pursue the objectives of equity through peace and harmony? In societies marked by deep historical, social, and ethnic divisions is there a way to promote social justice that does not destroy the fabric holding society together? Recent Thai history, and the “Principle and Rationale” guilding this conference, 75
76 KPI Congress XI suggest that the experiment in governance being conducted by Thailand’s political leadership is not achieving all that its authors would hope. The “Rationale” cites, among other disturbing signs in recent Thai political history, clashes between groups with opposing political views, unrest, loss of life, polarization, and battles between different levels of government. The “Rationale” further states that these visible conflicts cover an even deeper set of systemic problems including corruption, misconduct of public officials, unfair allocation of resources, unequal access to educational opportunities, elections influenced by patronage, and military intervention. If, as is often said about addictions, the first step toward recovery is recognizing that one has a problem, the long list of problems contained in this “Rationale” suggests that Thailand is ready to undertake the difficult “Treatment” required to become a full and vibrant democracy. As the recent global financial crisis has reaffirmed, we in the United States should be very careful about pretending to have lessons to teach others, whether in economics or politics. Our own failures to address systemic weaknesses in our financial structures have brought untold suffering to millions of unemployed Americans struggling and, in many cases, loosing their battle to keep their homes and families safe. Our failures because of the global influence of the U.S. economy have inflicted life threatening hardship on countless others around the world. Fortunately, we had a democratic system capable of responding quickly to these failures through the alternation in power of an opposition political party. However, despite the hope that President Obama has brought to the United States and, if the Nobel prize committee is to be believed, to the rest of the world, the jury is still out on whether we can address the political failures that led to the financial failures: the corrosive influence of money on our political system, the dominance of political decision-making by well-organized lobbies and influence peddlers, and the undermining of the government’s competence and capacity to regulate in the public interest the functioning of the private market economy.
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